Barbara L Bellows: 3 books
Two Charlestonians at War
The Civil War Odysseys of a Lowcountry Aristocrat and a Black Abolitionist
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2018
Tracing the intersecting lives of a Confederate plantation owner and a free black Union soldier, Barbara L. Bellows’ Two Charlestonians at War offers a poignant allegory of the fraught, interdependent relationship between wartime enemies in the Civil War South. Through the eyes of these very different...
A Talent for Living
Josephine Pinckney and the Charleston Literary Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2006
Josephine Pinckney (1895--1957) was an award-winning, best-selling author whose work critics frequently compared to that of Jane Austen, Edith Wharton, and Isak Dinesen. Her flair for storytelling and trenchant social commentary found expression in poetry, five novels -- Three O'Clock Dinner was the...
God and General Longstreet
The Lost Cause and the Southern Mind
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1995
More than a century after Appomattox, the Civil War and the idea of the
"Lost Cause" remain at the center of the southern mind. God and General
Longstreet traces the persistence and the transformation of the Lost Cause from the
first generation of former Confederates to more recent times,...